Thread by @ingridharvold

#AHE2020 as seen from rural Norway. @SurbhiKesar (@working_india) introducing the panel on perspectives from the Global South on Heterodox Economics with a stellar panel calling in from India, Italy and the US.

Prabhat Patnaik opens the plenary, speaking on globalization, inequality and economic crisis. #ahe2020

Now @LuGuangMing is presenting on "Bordering the Surplus Population across the Mediterranean: Imperialism and Unfree Labour in Libya and the Italian Countryside". She explains how immigrant workers can be seen as a reserve army allowing farmers to meet low production costs.

She highlights the important of understanding this process through a lens of neo-colonial resource extraction that expands the reserve army of labor of metropolitan capital. #AHE2020

She calls this "border imperialism" - it seeks to prevent a common organization of workers across lines of race, religion and nationality; preventing them from realizing their structural power that they have from their role in production. #AHE2020

Now we have @ymadra speaking on: Whither development after neoliberalism: Corporate nationalism vs. democratic economy.

Interesting theoretical framework presented here. 👇#AHE2020